Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, has been called one of the great soul music records of all time. The album was showcased at a 1972 concert at the Kennedy Center in Marvin’s hometown of Washington DC. 40 years later, the Kennedy Center commemorated that live performance, and asked select musicians to re-imagine “What’s Going On” [...]
The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light.
A look at the Brooklyn Brainery.
Apple’s AirPlay could become a threat to cable giants, since it gives lets users port a broad range of content to their televisions. But apparently that’s news to Time Warner’s chief exec. The NY Times’ Bits blog reports that Glenn A. Britt said in a group interview that there’s no simple way to get web [...]
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
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This takes “ladies free before 10″ social engineering to a whole new, and creepy, level. And by this, we mean a new app that dozens of San Francisco bars will cooperate with by placing facial recognition cameras inside their establishments. Here’s the lowdown from SF Weekly, which points out that this follows a similarly alarming [...]
The number of Americans who call themselves independents is at a record high. But they’re not the huge, impressionable bloc of swing voters you might think. Political scientists say most of these voters are what they call “closet partisans” — people who identify as independents but actually vote quite consistently for one of the two main parties.
NationBuilder co-founder Jim Gilliam is trying to reshape how democracy operates. No elections!? Read more…
In this election, like most election years, the voices of third party candidates are rarely heard. Most of the attention is focused on the two major parties running. However, considering the public’s deep dissatisfaction with the political system and Obama’s continuation of corporatist policies, third party candidates need to be heard. According to a Washington [...]
Ron Paul’s libertarian ideas may be considered fringe in the Grand Old Party, but they are mainstream among the party’s younger voters. And whoever does become the Republican nominee could pay a price for neglecting this energetic base.
On yesterday’s Patt Morrison show on KPCC, cartoonist and funny man Lalo Alcaraz revealed – sort of – that’s he’s “a hundred percent” behind the Mitt Romney twitter parody, @Mexican Mitt.
By Stephanie Jo Chapa Reporting from Charleston, South Carolina — Stephen Colbert, the satirical newsman and Charleston, South Carolina native, along with former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, held the much publicized ”THE ROCK ME LIKE A HERMAN CAIN: SOUTH CAIN-OLINA PRIMARY RALLY” at the College of Charleston today at the central Cistern Yard in downtown [...]
Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s premiere provocateur and host of The Colbert Report, recently declared his intentions to run for the presidency of the United States. Unfortunately, as ABC News reported, the next GOP primary in South Carolina doesn’t allow write-in ballots, all but denying Colbert the real chance to run during the state’s primary this weekend. The [...]
An attack video on Republican candidate frontrunner Mitt Romney has been making the rounds (the short version embeded above). And the “super PAC” supporting rival presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has come under fire for creating it. The 28-minute video depicts Romney as a greed-driven “corporate raider” making money at the expense of American workers. Romney [...]
Youth voter turnout in New Hampshire is typically among the highest in the nation — on par with that of older voters, according to new research put forth by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
Exeter, New Hampshire — If campaigning for Republican Presidential candidates in New Hampshire sounds like hard work, try going door to door on primary weekend for Jesus.
Mitt Romney spent his Monday focusing vote-rich southern New Hampshire. He started at a chamber of commerce breakfast Nashua, where a comment he made about choice in health care, “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,” became a late-breaking flashpoint. Democrats and republicans rivals Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Jon [...]
